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Happy almost Halloween! Show us the scariest thing that has ever happened to one of your fossils or something about fossils that is related to halloween. Mine is this. I'd bought a fake mosasaur jaw but I didn't know it was fake. I'd put it in the sink to clean it off and then the whole thing crumbled. I did get some mosasaur teeth out of it though.

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1 hour ago, Ludwigia said:

Ever get bitten by a bivalve?

 

Or Two Terrifying Terrorbratulids? 

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Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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The monster from Alien 

Rare ammonite Tiltoniceras

Transition Beds

Nottingham, uk 

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Crawling crinoid segment ...

 

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One fossil a day will keep you happy all day:rolleyes:

Welcome to the FOSSIL ART

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4 hours ago, Nanotyrannus35 said:

Happy almost Halloween! Show us the scariest thing that has ever happened to one of your fossils or something about fossils that is related to halloween. Mine is this. I'd bought a fake mosasaur jaw but I didn't know it was fake. I'd put it in the sink to clean it off and then the whole thing crumbled. I did get some mosasaur teeth out of it though.

At least you didn't really lose a mosasaur jaw, you just lost the money you paid for it! What's worse it putting a real fossil under the tap to rinse it off and having it crumble. I've done that, though not with anything as spectacular as a mosy jaw.

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2 hours ago, Denis Arcand said:

Crawling crinoid segment ...

 

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This one actually creeps me out more than any of the others, clever though they all are.... :fear:

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11 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Or Two Terrifying Terrorbratulids? 

 

Or how about a couple of spines from the horrible echinoid Rhabdocidaris horrida !

 

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Just hungry Brachiopod Mosquella oxyoptycha )))

 

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and Mosquella oxyoptycha like Batman 

 

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Not a fossil but the jaws from a large Mako are terrifying (even more terrifying when the rest of the shark is attached to them!)
I occasionally take it out of the cabinet and show my cat - just pure fear, he runs away every time haha 

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8 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

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Jaws in a jar! Nice 

Nice Meg teeth too, puts a little perspective on how big those sharks really were when you see it next to an extant shark jaw 

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3 hours ago, Gareth_ said:

Jaws in a jar! Nice 

Nice Meg teeth too, puts a little perspective on how big those sharks really were when you see it next to an extant shark jaw 

It does indeed and it is quite fun display. Both the megs are gifts from forum members so the bell jar, keeps them dust free and safe. I think you’re cat would like my sharks head because it still smells a little fishy.

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On 10/21/2021 at 6:22 AM, Ludwigia said:

Ever get bitten by a bivalve?

 

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Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors!

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'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

George Santayana

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The scariest thing you'd ever see on your ammonites

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Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday!

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How about a Smilodon with a bite mark?  I picture a lion or at least a dire wolf grabbing him mid-back!

 

 

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The size between a Meg and a modern great white...

 

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The Meg tooth is 5.64 in and the great white tooth comes from an 18 foot great white.

 

Yes we measured it in this topic :D

 

 

 

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Starting it up again this year with an oreodont scary story.  Below is a partial oreodont skull I bought. One side of the skull is complete, while the other is gone. Some say at night, he looks for the rest of his skull in the badlands. But he can't find it, so he just sits there, a smiling skull,  and waits for you to fossil hunt in the badlands. 

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Scary Geode. Sorry, not a fossil, but found as is during a fossil trip!

 

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Crinoid stem segments looking back at you...

 

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One fossil a day will keep you happy all day:rolleyes:

Welcome to the FOSSIL ART

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